Well, if it was ten events, it would be a decathlon. If it was eight events, it might be oct-athletics? So I guess someone taking part in all nine events is a non-athlete. That sounds about right to me...

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Me an the lasses frum over to tha Admiral Benbow be putting up our best wenches for keg rolling and full an half pint liftin.

Hows abouts a wee bit o a wager?

As to the implikashuns dat we be cheaters oil only sez dis ohonce

No we aint and youins ken ask Dead Phil the former cheese maker all abouts it--- but ye must needs to hold ye breaf as he be swimmin wif Davy Jones in the briny deep forever moreNot that we had anyfink to do wif is akksident an awl.

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I Ned Speil Cheek!!!!!!!!

I'm *not* the lowest rank on this ship. What about the laboratory mice? I tell them something and they jump straight to it. "Yes, Mr. Lister Sir, eek,eek."

* ANNOUNCER VOICEOVER * Welcome, Ladies an Gentlemen, Pirates and Wenches, Distinguished and Not-So-Distinguished Guests, and Competitors from all Nations to the Pirate Olympics!

* assorted cheers and rude noises from the assembled masses *

* ANNOUNCER VOICEOVER * Please rise for the Opening Ceremony as the last relay runner enters the arena with the PirLympics Torch -- a bottle of Captain's Deloight with a flaming piece of hawser sticking out the opening... The official Portsmouth Pirate Orchestra and Chorus has struck up a stirring anthem... I'm told that the runner is approaching the arena... And now we can just see a figure framed in the gates... Yes! It appears to be...

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pieces o'nine wrote:* ANNOUNCER VOICEOVER * Welcome, Ladies an Gentlemen, Pirates and Wenches, Distinguished and Not-So-Distinguished Guests, and Competitors from all Nations to the Pirate Olympics!

* assorted cheers and rude noises from the assembled masses *

* ANNOUNCER VOICEOVER * Please rise for the Opening Ceremony as the last relay runner enters the arena with the PirLympics Torch -- a bottle of Captain's Deloight with a flaming piece of hawser sticking out the opening... The official Portsmouth Pirate Orchestra and Chorus has struck up a stirring anthem... I'm told that the runner is approaching the arena... And now we can just see a figure framed in the gates... Yes! It appears to be...

...the home Nation The Piratica Olympic Team. So many big names, so many competitors, it's just a pity that only few of them do not have prosthetic limbs...